WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040041-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: October 14, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2009/12/18: CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040041-0
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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO Chief, Language and Area School
FROM Deputy for Language Training
SUBJECT: Weekly Activities Report
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
None to report.
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
DATE: 14 October 1959
1. Basic German Reading, Phase II, with five students and two
sections of German Basic RSW, Phase I, with eight students each began
on Monday.
2. Instructors in the VLTP are unanimous in expressing the opinion
that the present sessions are settling down to work faster than usual.
This is in good part a result of the intensive screening of students
which was carried out to reduce the number of classes to a minimum in
the VLTP.
3. One part-time Basic Japanese course began 12 October with seven
students and one part-time Basic Chinese course with five.
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1i. Upon special an
quest from
a student
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has been allowed to oin
full-time Persian course several
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weeks late. will give Aim tutorial instruction before or after
duty-hours for a few weeks to help him catch up.
5. The Spanish Seminar resumed its meetings on Tuesday, 13 October.
It will meet every Tuesday and Thursday from 1230 to 1330 hours. It is
the third Romance Language Seminar being conducted this fall. The others
are in French and Italian.
6. Basic Polish Reading (II) students are beginning to read selections
from two manuals prepared by the OTR. These are: Intensive Polish Reader
(Volume 1) and Poland, a picture reader. Members of the class report that
their young children, fascinated by the pictures which remind them of
comic books, demand that they translate all captions to them.
7. It appears that there will be sufficient demand to begin a new
Basic Polish Reading (I) course in the coming spring semester.
25 YEAR
RE-REVIEW
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2009/12/18: CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040041-0